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If a tunnel boring machine were installed facing downward in a cemetery, you wouldn't need to expand the cemetery (lemm.ee)
submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/showerthoughts
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Just have it drill downward, put some more dirt on the coffins, add another layer of coffins, and repeat!

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 4 months ago (6 children)

I think it’s a shame that when we figured out skyscrapers we didn’t start doing that with the dead. Catacombs in the sky reaching to the heavens.

I’m gonna go pay my respects to grandma she’s in the towns bonescraper. Smash cut to a giant tower made of skeletons.

Aliens come down to that kind of society, they’d want to party with us because that’s metal as fuck

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

When I die please arrange my remains on the Bonescraper in the essence of a skeletal gargoyle ty

[–] beejboytyson 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

We tried that before and we ended up with ghost Pokémon. Is that what you want?

[–] thermal_shock 10 points 4 months ago

could you imagine a skyscraper of coffins & skeletons collapsing? LOL would be fucking nuts

[–] Usernamealreadyinuse 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You want metal as fuck? Check out these dudes and dudettes

https://culturacolectiva.com/en/history/manene-death-ritual-indonesia/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Holy sh...

[–] Badeendje 3 points 4 months ago

Well have you seen some of the catacombs we do have. Skull piles, bone art, all pretty metal right there too. But not a skyscraper metal.

[–] cucumber_sandwich 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Have a big reservoir at the bottom that collects all the water runoff and uses it for the city water supply.

Bone water. Yummy.